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Smith to be Dean
of the MLK Chapel
ST. LOUIS, MO., March 2, tion programs for the U.S.
1978—Paul Smith, Associate Department of Defense. From
Vice Chancellor for Student 1964-67, he was Director of
Religion and Race for the St.
Louis Presbytery and director
of the St. Louis Urban
League’s Neighborhood
Stations Program.
For the past two and a half
years, Smith has been a parish
associate for the Second Pres
byterian Church. Previously,
he was co-pastor of Berea Pres
byterian Church.
A long-time resident of
University City, Mo., Smith
has been a consultant on em
ployee relations for the city’s
manager and on teacher and
racial relations for the Board
of Education. In addition,
Smith served on the Civil
Defense Board for the city.
Because of his move to
Atlanta, Smith will resign his
current position as Chairman
Braggs
Affairs at Washington
University, has accepted the
positions of Vice President of
the college and Dean of the
Martin Luther King Chapel at
Morehouse College in Atlanta,
Ga., beginning next fall.
During his six years at
Washington University,
Smith has held the positions of
Assistant Vice Chancellor,
Director of Housing and
Residential Life, assistant to
the Executive; Vice Chancellor
and as an affirmative action
officer. Smith has been an As
sociate Vice Chancellor since
1974.
Prior to going to
Washington University,
Smith was a contract relations
specialist, monitoring
government affirmative ac-
Paul Smith new Morehouse
Vice President
of the Regional U.S. Civil
Rights Advisory Committee. -
Smith earned a doctor of
ministry degree for Eden
Theological Seminary in
Webster Groves in 1977. He
also studied at the Hartford
Seminary Foundation in
Connecticut, where he received
a masters of divinity degree,
and at Talladega College in
Alabama, where he received
his bachelor of arts.
Smith, his wife, Frances
Pitts Smith, and three
daughters will move to
Atlanta in June.
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Pickens to Tour W. Germany
BY CHARLES E. MAPSON
Thomas Braggs, candidate
for the presidency of the
Morehouse Student
Government Association has
withdrawn from the race and
given all his support to Rodney
Thaxton.
“Thaxton is the only can
didate who has had the
experience needed to ef
ficiently lead the Student
Government,” said Braggs.
He added that he had noth-
This was done with the
understanding that Atlanta
University would construct
Harkness Hall and it would
serve as “an adequate ad
ministration building for the
joint use of Morehouse College,
Spelman College and Atlanta
University, and to permit
Morehouse and Spelman to use
ing personal against the other
candidates but he was certain
that Thaxton would have his
vote because “he had been in-
volved with student
government all year.”
The withdrawal of Braggs
has narrowed the field of can
didates down to five: Rodney
Thaxton, . Wayne Jones,
Gregory Griffin, Howlie Davis
and Dargan Burns.
so much of the building as they
may require for such purposes,
without payment of rent, as
long as the building stands.”
President Gloster further
stated that joint occupancy
problems exist with AU in
Hope and Merrill Halls
wherein AU occupies the third
floors of each building.
Dr. William G. Pickens,
Chairman of the Department
of English at Morehouse has
been invited to participate in a
Group Study Tour of Germany
from April 16 to April 30,1978.
The subject of the study tour is
“Mass Media and Modern
Ways of Training
Journalists.”
Tour expenses, including
transportation, ac-
comodations, meals, etc. will
be fully taken care of by the
Federal Republic of Germany.
Highlights of the tour will in
clude stops in Bonn, Hamburg,
Berlin and Munich. In these
cities, Dr. Pickens and other
members of the tour group will
visit the Press and In
formation Office of the Federal
Government of Germany; the
Academy of Journalism; the
German Press Agency; the
Institute for Journalism of the
Free University; the TV
Academy; Radio Free Berlin;
the Institute for Com
munications; University of
Munich; and Radio Bavaria.
Dr. Pickens graduated
magna cum laude from
Morehouse College in 1948; he
received the M.A. degree from
Atlanta University in 1950;
and in 1969, he received the
Ph.D. degree from the
University of Connecticut.
William Pickens Chairman
Department English
Morehouse, A.U
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